GCN Circular 6596
Subject
GRB 070704, Swift-BAT refined analysis
Date
2007-07-04T23:50:57Z (17 years ago)
From
Scott Barthelmy at NASA/GSFC <scott@lheamail.gsfc.nasa.gov>
C. Markwardt (GSFC/UMD), L. Barbier (GSFC), S. D. Barthelmy (GSFC),
J. Cummings (GSFC/UMBC), E. Fenimore (LANL), N. Gehrels (GSFC),
H. Krimm (GSFC/USRA), D. Palmer (LANL), A. Parsons (GSFC),
T. Sakamoto (GSFC/ORAU), G. Sato (GSFC/ISAS), M. Stamatikos (GSFC/ORAU),
J. Tueller (GSFC), T. Ukwatta (GWU)
(i.e. the Swift-BAT team):
Using the data set from T-239 to T+523 sec from the recent telemetry downlink,
we report further analysis of BAT GRB 070704 (trigger #283791)
(Sakamoto, et al., GCN Circ. 6594). The BAT ground-calculated position is
RA, Dec = 354.707, 66.257 deg which is
RA(J2000) = 23h 38m 49.6s
Dec(J2000) = 66d 15' 25"
with an uncertainty of 1.6 arcmin, (radius, sys+stat, 90% containment).
The partial coding was 42%.
The mask-weighted light curve shows the burst started at ~T-65 sec when
Swift was executing a preplanned slew. There are multiple peaks with
decreasing amplitude with time. The burst almost returns to background
during T+110 to T+230 sec, but then has emission from T+250 to T+410 sec.
T90 (15-350 keV) is 380 +- 10 sec (estimated error including systematics).
The time-averaged spectrum from T-57.3 to T+400.8 sec is best fit by a simple
power-law model. The power law index of the time-averaged spectrum is
1.79 +- 0.08. The fluence in the 15-150 keV band is 5.9 +- 0.3 x 10^-6 erg/cm2.
The 1-sec peak photon flux measured from T-53.10 sec in the 15-150 keV band
is 2.1 +- 0.2 ph/cm2/sec. All the quoted errors are at the 90% confidence
level.